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2 unusual facts about urban legends


John Torres

In 2001-2 Torres recorded the single “Wrong” (written by Damon Intrabartolo) for the movie “Urban Legends: Final Cut,” which is included on the soundtrack.

Urban Legends: Final Cut

When Sandra (Jessica Cauffiel), Amy's actress friend who played a victim in a scene, returns to an empty studio after forgetting her keys, she is attacked and stabbed to death by the same killer who killed Lisa.


Big Secrets

Some of the mysteries Poundstone explores are urban legends (such as what happened to Walt Disney after his death), while others are day-to-day matters which many people may not think to contemplate, such as what barcodes mean, the Coca-Cola formula, secret air frequencies, or what makes up KFC's 11 herbs and spices recipe.

Gregg Lehrman

Lehrman is known for his work on such films as the Smithsonian's A Thousand Roads, Urban Legends, The Quiet and Loveless in Los Angeles.

Seven HD

Late-night series broadcast included This is Your Laugh, Lost, Scrubs, That '70s Show, The Grid, Urban Legends, Final 24, Dateline NBC, 5ive Days to Midnight, A Country Practice, and classic episodes of Deal or No Deal as well as late movies and encores of other series shown on Channel Seven.


see also

Jan Harold Brunvand

Follow-up works include The Choking Doberman (1984), The Mexican Pet (1988), Curses! Broiled Again! (1990), The Baby Train (1993), The Encyclopedia of Urban Legends (2001), and others.

Midgetville

Located near Milton, Jefferson Township, New Jersey has been the subject of urban legends about a Midgetville community.

Phantom social workers

It is thought that reports of unidentified "social workers" attempting to take children away from their parents were merely scare stories or urban legends fuelled by the story of Marietta Higgs, a paediatrician from Cleveland, England who diagnosed 121 children as being victims of sexual abuse from their parents without any evidence or reason.

Reyburn

Wallace Reyburn (1913–2001), New Zealand-born humourist author, rugby writer and creator of urban legends

Ruth Cleveland

The Curtiss Candy Company asserted that the "Baby Ruth" candy bar (formerly known as Kandy Kake from 1900–1920) was named after Ruth Cleveland, a claim that the urban legends website Snopes.com has debunked.

The Spider Bite

Bengt af Klintberg's work in urban legends elaborates and explains that as a consequence of the absence of spiders in the modern urban environment, they have now assumed mythical proportions in our narrative tradition.

Wojciech Orliński

Mark Barber – Urban Legends (RM 2007) – preface to the Polish edition and a chapter about Polish urban legends